Dungeon Master Again

                An article from Bill Commons

My Grandson and his friends finally tired of playing Diablo via my
network, I was a bit cruel because I insisted that they reach
level 50 before I allowed them to load in Hellfire. One did get to
level 44 though. Well I haven't played it myself yet.

I noticed that when I threw them out each night, they started
playing DM on their Atari ST in my daughter's house. I found a
really good ST emulator on the web, it is freeware and called
PaCifiST. I found this by doing a search for Dungeon Master and
this led to a page http:club.ib.be/Jehan.de.bethune and from here,
after downloading the DM game, I was led to many links, one of
them the PaCifiST web site. It has a great following and you can
download PC files to play virtually all the games brought out for
the ST. It also has an Amiga emulator and although I downloaded
it, I have not yet tried this.

I put the emulator and DM, plus some other games including Chaos
Strikes Back, on four of my five computers and now my living room
echoes to the sound of fireballs when they are playing. It is very
user friendly and the games run in ST time bringing back memories
of the time it takes to load in the saved games.

I played the game many times, years ago, and at that time I could
answer any problems or situations, it was not the case now, and I
had long ago put my notes into the loft. I thought rather than go
delving up there, I would look through the SynTax solutions, guess
what, it is on Issue 1! I loaded this through PaCifiST and watched
as the screen loaded word by word, SynWin loads like a flash, how
things have improved.

@~The word-by-word loading is due to the emulator; the original
@~SynTax loaded a screen at a time ... Sue

One game I never finished on my ST was Knightmare because my
computer broke down and although I bought another ST the game
would not play on it. I downloaded several versions of this and
made my own version from the ST floppies that I own, all doomed to
failure. The boys lasted about a month playing each night from
five to eight thirty and most of the weekends, they do sometimes
go back to it though. Now they have discovered Lands of Lore 1 and
are playing that non-stop.

@~Maybe this is the only way PC users will be able to play Chaos
@~Strikes Back? ... Sue











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